Steve Wells has been in technology for some time – he wrote his first program on punched cards in the 80s – and has worked in myriad coding, management and coaching roles for many years. Having been an agile, XP developer for many years, he struck out as Scrum Master and Agile Coach around 10 years ago and has since been heavily involved in transformation at Sky, M&S and, latterly, giffgaff. He is a keen proponent of OKR-driven Lean UX which, let’s face it, is basically agile as it was originally envisaged before all these frameworks and certs took over, and speaks regularly on the subject. A regular blogger and speaker at conferences such as Agile Cambridge, Agile Business and CIPD, he is always ready to provoke discussion even if unpopular. Particularly with QAs and Jira lovers…
Anybody else getting bored of posts about “agile stuff” like burn down charts, velocity variation, scrum certifications and other minutae of agile processes and methods? I wonder how agile companies who concentrate on these things, or simply care about them, really are, and if their digital transformations have changed much. Do they just use Scrum as a veneer, but still do “projects” that are successful if “on time and to budget” (instead of whether they delivered customer value or not) or just go round and round the scrum mouse wheel getting things to “done” but not delivering frequently,
Best Agile Articles is a collaborative project of the Agile community to bring you the best of the best publications each year. Our goal in publishing these yearly editions is to cull through the many articles that are published each year and provide you with a curated set of high-quality articles that capture the latest knowledge and experience of the agile community in one compact volume. Our purpose is twofold. First, we understand that it’s hard to figure out where to go when looking for ideas and answers. There are thousands of blogs, videos, books and other resources available at the click of a mouse. But that can be a lot to sort through. So, we thought we could be of some help. Second, we wanted to bring some visibility to many people who are doing outstanding work in this field and are providing helpful resources. We hope that this publication will help them connect to you, the ones they are writing for. Our intention is that this publication is to be by the agile community as a service to the agile community and for the agile community. With that in mind, we pulled together a great group of volunteers to help get this work into your hands.
The articles in this volume were selected by: • A diverse Volunteer Committee of sixteen people with expertise in a variety of areas related to agile. • The agile community. A call for article nominations went out in early 2020 and several dozen 2019 articles were nominated by the community.
The articles themselves cover a wide variety of topics including organizational structure, culture, and agile leadership. There is something for almost everyone here. All editions of the Best Agile Articles publication are available on Amazon and free to download on the Best Agile Article site. We are thankful for the great participation by the agile community at large. If you would like to participate in delivering this publication in future years, we would welcome hearing from you.
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Steve Wells
Steve Wells has been in technology for some time – he wrote his first program on punched cards in the 80s – and has worked in myriad coding, management and coaching roles for many years. Having been an agile, XP developer for many years, he struck out as Scrum Master and Agile Coach around 10 years ago and has since been heavily involved in transformation at Sky, M&S and, latterly, giffgaff. He is a keen proponent of OKR-driven Lean UX which, let’s face it, is basically agile as it was originally envisaged before all these frameworks and certs took over, and speaks regularly on the subject. A regular blogger and speaker at conferences such as Agile Cambridge, Agile Business and CIPD, he is always ready to provoke discussion even if unpopular. Particularly with QAs and Jira lovers…
Self-organisation in the sunshine: there’s more to agile than post-its and stand ups…
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Anybody else getting bored of posts about “agile stuff” like burn down charts, velocity variation, scrum certifications and other minutae of agile processes and methods? I wonder how agile companies who concentrate on these things, or simply care about them, really are, and if their digital transformations have changed much. Do they just use Scrum as a veneer, but still do “projects” that are successful if “on time and to budget” (instead of whether they delivered customer value or not) or just go round and round the scrum mouse wheel getting things to “done” but not delivering frequently,
About Best Agile Articles Project
Best Agile Articles is a collaborative project of the Agile community to bring you the best of the best publications each year. Our goal in publishing these yearly editions is to cull through the many articles that are published each year and provide you with a curated set of high-quality articles that capture the latest knowledge and experience of the agile community in one compact volume.
Our purpose is twofold. First, we understand that it’s hard to figure out where to go when looking for ideas and answers. There are thousands of blogs, videos, books and other resources available at the click of a mouse. But that can be a lot to sort through. So, we thought we could be of some help. Second, we wanted to bring some visibility to many people who are doing outstanding work in this field and are providing helpful resources. We hope that this publication will help them connect to you, the ones they are writing for.
Our intention is that this publication is to be by the agile community as a service to the agile community and for the agile community. With that in mind, we pulled together a great group of volunteers to help get this work into your hands.
The articles in this volume were selected by:
• A diverse Volunteer Committee of sixteen people with expertise in a variety of areas related to agile.
• The agile community. A call for article nominations went out in early 2020 and several dozen 2019 articles were nominated by the community.
The articles themselves cover a wide variety of topics including organizational structure, culture, and agile leadership. There is something for almost everyone here. All editions of the Best Agile Articles publication are available on Amazon and free to download on the Best Agile Article site.
We are thankful for the great participation by the agile community at large. If you would like to participate in delivering this publication in future years, we would welcome hearing from you.